Product Description

Listeners learn pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of a new language without the need of a textbook. Convenient to use while driving, working out... or anywhere!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1502920 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 3
• Binding: Audio CD

Amazon.com Review
Look ma, no textbooks! The Learn in Your Car series treats you like a child--in the best possible way--starting with one-word phrases ("please," "good-by"), counting exercises, and simple nouns ("bus," "train") designed to imitate a child's learning process. First you hear the words in English, then they are repeated slowly in clear, unaccented pronunciations. The method is extremely effective for those who don't know a thing, or for those who want to brush up by testing themselves when the English words are spoken. The tapes emphasize the building blocks of communicating in a foreign country rather than rote phrases that only apply on the tape and not in real-life exchanges. Level 1 painlessly covers basic verb forms, essential prepositions, near future and past tenses, as well as shopping, hotel reservations, and other travel-related situations. The series includes French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish in three levels that can be purchased individually or in boxed sets. Each level contains two 90-minute cassettes (or CDs) and an accompanying booklet (not for use behind the wheel) with helpful explanations and scripts for the lessons.

Review
"Your audio program is the best I've tried. I just returned from France and had a wonderful time conversing in French even though I had only three weeks with your tapes before I left. Thanks for putting out such a superlative product at a reasonable price."

About the Author
Henry N Raymond

Customer Reviews

Excellent for the drive to work
Really enjoyed this tape series. Lived a year in Japan and am always looking for (inexpensive) ways to keep up my Japanese. The format and content was just right. Also learned new vocabulary, as well. Level 3 was also very good.

a bit tedious
There is an art to making a language learning course interesting and engaging. The art was lost on this course although it still does a decent job of teaching with lots of repetition.

Bad for beginners
I'm preparing for my trip back to Japan, and thought these tapes would help me remember what I was fluent in as a child, so I skipped the first edition.

I listened to level 2 tapes a few times, and after not recognizing the words they were saying, and then realizing they were using phrases I'd never use, for example "i am not your friend", I figured out I bought the wrong tapes.

The phrases are said in English first, and then in Japanese, but the Japanese is so fast that you don't have a chance to mimic the sentence, and if you do, you don't know how to break down the meaning of each part of the sentence. Maybe I should have bought level 1, but I really don't think I need to learn how to say things they were trying to teach.

I bought the 1993 version of Henry N. Raymond's cassettes, but I'm not sure the current version is any different!

I've since found a great book for beginners called Japanese in 10 Minutes a Day. It is easy to learn, fun, and really does take 10 minutes a day!